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  1. Packfill
    By significant trade, does that imply a Bey like move or more of a Murray type of move? I definitely would consider the later a significant trade, but not the former.
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    Crazy stuff tonight. Both teams should be embarrassed.
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    Collins on a top 20 rebounding list . . .
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    I would note that Philly is playing very differently this year without Harden then it did last year with him. I don't think not having Collins is a big change for the team. He did not have the ball in his hands much, nor was the offense designed around him. Not having a high usage player like Harden was for Philly last year, in my view, have a more meaningful impact on the way a team plays.
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    Yes the Hawks have a new system, but I must be missing something because their current 8 man rotation consists entirely of players that were with the team last season. Am I wrong? Also, the new system "defense" does not apply when you are playing another team that also has a new system. All that said, the Hawks lost to a clearly superior team so hard to get too upset.
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    Trae is hands down the more efficient scorer. Prime Westbrook did bring some other things to the table though. Look at the roster of his team that MVP year and it is actually pretty impressive they won what, 47 games?
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    Also JJ right now is shooting 47% from 3; Murray 38%; Bey 37%; Bogi 35%; and Hunter 34%. Plenty of shooting around Trae right now, particularly if you take the view that he is a shooter too (and despite his low percentages he has gravity to create open looks for others).
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    To be fair I think he won MVP after Durant left.
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    Agree it is still early for Quinn but I think a lot of us hoped that his time coaching last season would speed everything up this season - at least in terms of knowing the players and what he would want his rotations to look like.
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    That playoff series was a long time ago now, and The Knicks are definitely a different team with Brunson. Actually both teams have had a fair amount of turnover since.
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    Thunder still need a power forward who can come in and bang and complement Chet, but their roster is definitely coming together. Given the season SGA had last year I came into this game wondering whether I would rather build a team around Trae or SGA. Now I am wondering if I would swap the Hawks roster for the Thunder roster entirely. Hawks roster is more mature and in a better position to win now (obviously not last night though), whereas Thunder are younger and likely further from being a meaningful post-season team. Hawks should be better this season though and who knows if OKC can pay all these guys if they continue to progress (they may need to do another Harden type trade when the second contracts kick in).
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    Good for the Hawks that Middleton is getting the night off.
  13. Packfill
    Wiseman is terrible. No thanks.
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    My overreaction post from the first game is that Charlotte will be lucky to win 35 games this season, maybe far less as I see them unloading vets like Rozier at the deadline to pick up assets to build for the future around Melo, Williams and maybe Miller. It is one game but these are exactly the types of games - meaning against mediocre teams - the Hawks need to win if they want to rise above .500.
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    I do not disagree with that. I was responding to the "disrespect" perception more globally. That said, there is no doubt that teams that stuck in mediocrity tend to get overlooked in favor of teams that are perceived to be on the rise. Orlando is one of the teams that a lot of people believe is "on the rise". They still seem like they are a year away to me, and that is only if they can find a guard that shoot. I do not know what they were thinking with the Jett Howard pick in the draft.
  16. Packfill
    If the Hawks win perspectives will change. Players, coaches, front office staff and fans all respect winning. I am fine with Trae and the Hawks needing to earn that respect by winning. The rest is noise.
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    I 100% agree on the Celtics lack of depth. That said, in trading Robert Williams and Brogdan it is not like they are trading two guys who are known for durability. Jrue is getting up there but he seems a lot more likely to play 70+ games then the guys they traded for him. They will have some real challenges during the regular season but if they make it to the post-season with their top 6 healthy the gamble pays off. We shall see.
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    I would go a step further in saying that playoff Jamal Murray - he does have two pretty historic playoff runs in him now - is a second MVP caliber player that makes the Nuggets so dangerous (and ultimately successful). Regular season Jamal Murray is for sure much more akin to the Hawks Murray.
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    In my view Tatum would be the perfect star pairing with Trae. Both would benefit from each other's offensive gravity and Tatum's diverse skill set gives him lots of ways to impact winning off the ball.
  20. Packfill
    If the Hawks front office decides that they want to roll forward with the current roster with the idea that player development will unlock additional upside in this roster, and that the team has not yet reached an inflection point where they need to flip from being a "development focused" model to an "it is an all about winning" model, I can understand that, even if it may be disappointing to me. Continuity could also be good. That said, I don't see a contender, but happy to be proven wrong. If they roll with this current roster and are mediocre again I would expect some pretty drastic roster changes the next season. They have been mediocre for a couple years now and that is the wrong place to be stuck.
  21. Packfill
    Would be hard to top UCLA's college all-time starting 5: Gail Goodrich Reggie Miller Jamaal Wilks Bill Walton Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  22. Packfill
    East appears wide open this year. Opportunity is absolutely there for the Hawks. I am taking a wait and see approach though. Hopefully the coaching is good enough to unlock some things because absent that I don't see a roster built to contend for a championship in the near term. I will be happy to be proven wrong on that. In any event, it is about time for a new power to arise in the east. Whether that is a current fringy playoff team like Atlanta or Cleveland, or one of the bottom feeders that finally coalesce around their young talent (Detroit and Orlando, in my view, both have undeniable talent, but that talent needs to convert into production/winning, which is no easy feet). The west seems stacked to me.
  23. Packfill
    That is super embarrassing for them. I will say, I feel like Dallas has collected a very interesting group of young players (Green. Hardy and Lively).
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    CC and Gobert is also obviously not going to work for Minny.
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    Blazers doing the Mavs a favor here I think, particularly since Dallas appears to have Williams in the fold. I am likely an outlier but I think both Green and Hardy have upside for Dallas. I do note that the market for roll-players is now between $10m and $25m per year (think contracts like this and bigger deals for guys like Bruce Brown and Cam Johnson. New deals for OO and Bey next year will not be cheap.
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